Re: jigdo-bd

2011-08-14 Thread Rick Thomas


On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Dejan Ribič wrote:


Dne 12.8.2011 21:26, piše Paul E Condon:

I am looking into downloading some iso images of squeeze. I have not
done this in quite a while and I see that things have changed a lot
while I wasn't looking. I think I need jigdo-cd.

But what is jigdo-bd? Under what conditions is it the proper choice?
bd must be mnemonic for something, but I don't make the connection
the way I do for cd.

TIA

Hi,

  bd stands for Bluray-Disc.

Cheers,

Dejan


You might want it if you have a bluray drive for some reason.  I  
haven't seen a regular PC with a BD drive yet, so I assume they are  
fairly rare in the wild.  Reader/Writer drives (in the same form- 
factor as standard PC 5.25-inch internal CD/DVD drives) seem to be  
selling for about US$100 - $200 on the web.


At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable is the  
following information:


Blu-ray Disc recordable (or BD-R) refers to two direct to disc  
optical disc recording technologies that can be recorded on to an  
optical disc with an optical disc recorder. BD-R discs can be written  
to once, whereas BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc Rewritable) can be erased and re- 
recorded multiple times. Disc capacities are 25 GB (23.28 GiB) for  
single-layer discs, 50 GB (46.57 GiB) for double-layer discs, 100 GB  
for triple-layer discs, and 128 GB for quad-layer discs.


25GB is about 5 single-layer DVDs.  So you can get a substantial  
fraction of the entire Debian distribution, including source, on a  
single BD disk.


Rick

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Re: jigdo-bd

2011-08-12 Thread Dejan Ribič

Dne 12.8.2011 21:26, piše Paul E Condon:

I am looking into downloading some iso images of squeeze. I have not
done this in quite a while and I see that things have changed a lot
while I wasn't looking. I think I need jigdo-cd.

But what is jigdo-bd? Under what conditions is it the proper choice?
bd must be mnemonic for something, but I don't make the connection
the way I do for cd.

TIA

Hi,

   bd stands for Bluray-Disc.

Cheers,

Dejan


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